David Perdue

Perdue, who appears to be badly losing his primary, decided to end his campaign by calling Stacey Abrams an interloper who demeans her own race.

Referring to a 2018 remark in which Abrams pledged to create new jobs in the renewable energy industry, saying, “People shouldn’t have to go into agriculture or hospitality to make a living in Georgia,” Perdue told supporters on Monday: “When she told Black farmers, ‘You don’t need to be on the farm,’ and she told Black workers in hospitality and all this, ‘You don’t need to be,’ she is demeaning her own race when it comes to that. While Trump took to Truth Social to insist he still believes in Perdue and that reports to the contrary are “phony” news, he chose not to hold a last-minute rally for the candidate, The New York Times noted, and called into a Monday event by phone to predict Perdue would pull out a surprise victory. We just need greatness to be in our governor’s office.”) Abrams was born in Wisconsin and moved to Georgia in high school, where she has lived for decades.

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One has to hope Perdue is decisively defeated. As Perdue recently sneered: “It’s a woke California company whose mission is to turn the world green.” But beyond this, another form of ugly politicking is also on the ballot. But the looming shaming of Perdue is important for another reason. That would be a well-deserved humiliation, payback for an extraordinarily cynical exercise in this kind of Trumpist politics. With Georgia voters going to the polls Tuesday, Perdue is ending his campaign with a fitting burst of abject self-debasement.

With Perdue's loss, Trump fails to unseat a Republican governor who stood up to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

However, Kemp rebounded politically, outraising Perdue and running a stream of advertising while the former senator largely went dark on the airwaves during the last week of the race. Kemp was elected in 2018 as a Trump ally running on a decidedly conservative platform. When Perdue entered the gubernatorial race in December, his endorsement from Trump and the force of the former president's 2020 election claims were seen as invaluable assets in a GOP primary, as Kemp's popularity had appeared to wane among many MAGA grassroots supporters.

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The centerpiece of her platform remains a call to expand Medicaid to all adults, but Abrams is also highlighting her support for abortion rights and opposition to a law allowing the permitless carry of concealed handguns in public. Perdue was courted by Trump to enter the race as retribution for Kemp not going along with the former president’s effort to overturn his defeat in Georgia’s 2020 election. But Trump has not returned to Georgia since March, and Perdue's ads have been missing from Georgia television stations for much of the crucial early-voting period. With all the election stuff, I was like, ‘Dude, move on.’" “I’m not really a Trumper,” Parbhoo said. He signed measures that cut taxes, allowed people to carry concealed handguns without permits and helped ban transgender girls from high school sports.

The former GOP senator made the remarks during his final gubernatorial campaign event ahead of Georgia's primary elections.

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Stacey Abrams, a Black Democrat running for Georgia governor, declined on Tuesday to directly comment on Republican David Perdue saying she should "go back ...

They were denied the ability to cast the ballot and the ability to have that ballot counted In 2018." According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Abrams actually said in 2018: "I want to create a lot of different jobs. But they've done nothing to attack the challenges facing Georgia. They've done nothing to articulate their plans for the future of Georgia. Their response to a comment on their record is to deflect and to pretend that they've done good for the people of Georgia." "She should never be considered material for governor of any state, much less our state where she hates to live." Abrams grew up in Mississippi but has deep ties to Georgia, a state she moved to during high school and where she previously served as the House minority leader. "She doesn't like it here."